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Weekly Global News Wrap Up: Bank merger boom set to begin; New accounting rules for banks to worsen crises

JPMorgan records most profitable year and Credit Suisse ends cost-cutting era.

Aussie banks face 100bps increase in Tier-1 capital

The aim is for them to be 'unquestionably strong'.

What could boost growth of the Malaysian Islamic banking sector?

The country has US$150b in Islamic financial assets.

OCBC enables QR code fund transfers

The service is available through PayNow.

Standard Chartered's Deniz Güven discusses going digital with a human touch: Why delivering high-tech services to clients is not enough

The bank's new global head for design and client experience wants to introduce humanised, easy-to-use solutions instead.

Small Thai banks to outperform big banks as NPLs improve

Loan growth should accelerate in the second half of 2017.

Everything you need to know about Vietnamese banks' improving asset quality

Impaired loans decreased from 12.7% to 8.4% of total loans in 2016.

Citi appoints Amit Dhawan as Asia Pacific SME business head

And Rodney Lee was named Asia Commercial Bank's digitization head.

Citi Asia's revenue grows 4% to US$3.4b in Q2

This was the fourth consecutive quarter of revenue growth year on year for Citi in Asia. Last Friday Citi globally reported 2Q results – with US$17...

China Construction Bank's NPL woes finally over

NPL formation receded to less than US$4b in Q1.

DBS Private Bank appoints John Ng as head of portfolio counselling & product strategy

DBS Private Bank announced that John Ng has been appointed as the Head of Portfolio Counselling & Product Strategy. Part of the DBS Private Bank’s...

Asian Banking and Finance Awards 2017 recognises record number of winners

Over 180 trophies were awarded to winning banks and insurance companies.

Hang Seng Bank's John Wong to discuss the need to digitalise banks' operational needs

He will be one of the panelists at the 2017 Banking Forum in Hong Kong. John Wong, head of global liquidity and cash management at Hang Seng Bank...

Esmond Lee of Hong Kong's Financial Services Development Council to sit as a panelist at the 2017 Banking Forum

He says the cross border payments in the foreseeable future will still be served by banks.